Regine Pilling
@regipilling.bsky.social
She / Her. I teach Politics at Capital City College and I'm also the UCU Branch Sec and on UCU NEC for London & East FE.
Along with donating to Sheffield UCU - please sign their petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
www.megaphone.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Along with donating to Sheffield UCU - please sign their petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Absolutely outrageous that staff are being locked out at Sheffield Uni - please donate and share the gofundme link.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
Many of my colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social are 'locked out' for refusing to replace teaching missed during strike. Deductions have already been taken for that action. If you have any cash spare, donations gratefully received so that branch can support members. gofund.me/9b971e2a8
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
gofund.me
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Absolutely outrageous that staff are being locked out at Sheffield Uni - please donate and share the gofundme link.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
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Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
*SOLIDARITY WITH MINNEAPOLIS* 🤝🏽 *DAY OF ACTION*
In solidarity with the call out in the US to walk out and strike against ICE on Friday 23 January:
💥Take action at work / Organise a meeting in your workplace / Put on a protest / Walkout at your school or university
In solidarity with the call out in the US to walk out and strike against ICE on Friday 23 January:
💥Take action at work / Organise a meeting in your workplace / Put on a protest / Walkout at your school or university
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
*SOLIDARITY WITH MINNEAPOLIS* 🤝🏽 *DAY OF ACTION*
In solidarity with the call out in the US to walk out and strike against ICE on Friday 23 January:
💥Take action at work / Organise a meeting in your workplace / Put on a protest / Walkout at your school or university
In solidarity with the call out in the US to walk out and strike against ICE on Friday 23 January:
💥Take action at work / Organise a meeting in your workplace / Put on a protest / Walkout at your school or university
London Met is once again under attack - 120 jobs are under threat and shows the increasing moves to reduce educational opportunities for the working class.
Please send messages of support.
Please send messages of support.
January 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
London Met is once again under attack - 120 jobs are under threat and shows the increasing moves to reduce educational opportunities for the working class.
Please send messages of support.
Please send messages of support.
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Short-termism kills knowledge.
It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.
It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.
UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy.
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Short-termism kills knowledge.
It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.
It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.
UCU at CCC will be organising a delegation to the Together demonstration. Hope to see lots of trade union banners & members there.
Anti-racists are the majority. We need hope & unity.
Anti-racists are the majority. We need hope & unity.
10 WEEKS TILL WE MARCH
The countdown is on.
Join us in London on 28th March. For love, hope + unity.
Sign up: togetheralliance.org.uk
#Together
The countdown is on.
Join us in London on 28th March. For love, hope + unity.
Sign up: togetheralliance.org.uk
#Together
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
UCU at CCC will be organising a delegation to the Together demonstration. Hope to see lots of trade union banners & members there.
Anti-racists are the majority. We need hope & unity.
Anti-racists are the majority. We need hope & unity.
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Important event in Westminster today with UCU Union: A 25% cut in FE salaries since 2009 -this cannot go on: we need a new deal for FE
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Important event in Westminster today with UCU Union: A 25% cut in FE salaries since 2009 -this cannot go on: we need a new deal for FE
Our UCU CCC delegation to the UCU rally for FE strikers - Solidarity! #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Our UCU CCC delegation to the UCU rally for FE strikers - Solidarity! #UCU #NewDealForFE
Brilliant pickets - love the homemade banner! And absolutely correct - it's not fair that FE teachers are paid less than school teachers.
That's why we need to keep fighting for national binding bargaining! #UCU #NewDealForFE
That's why we need to keep fighting for national binding bargaining! #UCU #NewDealForFE
St Helens, Knowsley and Liverpool are out on the picket lines this morning.
FE staff have faced a 40% real-terms pay cut and are paid around £9,000 less for doing the same job.
That’s not fair and it’s not sustainable.
Show your support ✊
FE staff have faced a 40% real-terms pay cut and are paid around £9,000 less for doing the same job.
That’s not fair and it’s not sustainable.
Show your support ✊
January 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Brilliant pickets - love the homemade banner! And absolutely correct - it's not fair that FE teachers are paid less than school teachers.
That's why we need to keep fighting for national binding bargaining! #UCU #NewDealForFE
That's why we need to keep fighting for national binding bargaining! #UCU #NewDealForFE
Solid day across our sites - congratulations to all our UCU members #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Solid day across our sites - congratulations to all our UCU members #UCU #NewDealForFE
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More pay for FE. Less work for FE.
📣 Bournemouth & Poole College staff out in force today.
Further education keeps communities going but staff are stretched, underpaid and undervalued.
This is what solidarity looks like. ✊
College leaders, come to the table.
📣 Bournemouth & Poole College staff out in force today.
Further education keeps communities going but staff are stretched, underpaid and undervalued.
This is what solidarity looks like. ✊
College leaders, come to the table.
January 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
More pay for FE. Less work for FE.
📣 Bournemouth & Poole College staff out in force today.
Further education keeps communities going but staff are stretched, underpaid and undervalued.
This is what solidarity looks like. ✊
College leaders, come to the table.
📣 Bournemouth & Poole College staff out in force today.
Further education keeps communities going but staff are stretched, underpaid and undervalued.
This is what solidarity looks like. ✊
College leaders, come to the table.
Day 5 of striking for us at CCC! Getting our picket line set up! #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Day 5 of striking for us at CCC! Getting our picket line set up! #UCU #NewDealForFE
Great to have Jo down on our pickets and to see photos of our colleagues standing up for fair pay for all.
We need national binding bargaining to end pay inequality.
It's not right that staff at my place are paid more than elsewhere, just because we have a stronger UCU branch that pushes back.
We need national binding bargaining to end pay inequality.
It's not right that staff at my place are paid more than elsewhere, just because we have a stronger UCU branch that pushes back.
College lecturers in England are paid £7,000+ less than their equivalents in schools and 6th form colleges.
Our members aren’t having it anymore.
Proud to stand alongside thousands taking strike action today.
Our members aren’t having it anymore.
Proud to stand alongside thousands taking strike action today.
January 16, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Great to have Jo down on our pickets and to see photos of our colleagues standing up for fair pay for all.
We need national binding bargaining to end pay inequality.
It's not right that staff at my place are paid more than elsewhere, just because we have a stronger UCU branch that pushes back.
We need national binding bargaining to end pay inequality.
It's not right that staff at my place are paid more than elsewhere, just because we have a stronger UCU branch that pushes back.
It wasn't just staff & students in HE that protested - so did FE. At our place we had to fight with management to make sure our students could go down to the protests. Increasingly are W/C students have chosen not to go. UCU should fight and lobby to end this ridiculous funding system.
Yes: student loans are bad.
We told you so.
In 2010, when the ConDems announced £9k fees, staff and students in Higher Education marched and protested.
The students who marched did not have to pay the fees.
Staff were fed propaganda we would benefit.
And yet we marched.
@ucu.org.uk
We told you so.
In 2010, when the ConDems announced £9k fees, staff and students in Higher Education marched and protested.
The students who marched did not have to pay the fees.
Staff were fed propaganda we would benefit.
And yet we marched.
@ucu.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
It wasn't just staff & students in HE that protested - so did FE. At our place we had to fight with management to make sure our students could go down to the protests. Increasingly are W/C students have chosen not to go. UCU should fight and lobby to end this ridiculous funding system.
Important meeting on Venezuela- TONIGHT 6.30 tinyurl.com/uculeft-vene... #UCULeft
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Important meeting on Venezuela- TONIGHT 6.30 tinyurl.com/uculeft-vene... #UCULeft
Hope to see lots of UCU FE members at the rally tomorrow - 12pm Emmanuel Centre✊ #UCU #NewDealForFE
🚨 FE strike action 🚨
Staff at 25 colleges strike 14-16 Jan over pay and conditions.
📍 National rally: Emmanual Centre, Westminster, Fri 16 Jan, 12pm
UCU is demanding a New Deal for FE , pay parity and national bargaining.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1430...
Staff at 25 colleges strike 14-16 Jan over pay and conditions.
📍 National rally: Emmanual Centre, Westminster, Fri 16 Jan, 12pm
UCU is demanding a New Deal for FE , pay parity and national bargaining.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1430...
Staff at 25 English college employers to strike for better pay and working conditions
Staff at 25 colleges across England will begin three days of strike action next week after college bosses refused to make fair offers over pay and working conditions, the University and College Union ...
www.ucu.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Hope to see lots of UCU FE members at the rally tomorrow - 12pm Emmanuel Centre✊ #UCU #NewDealForFE
Solidarity to all those striking at Morley! We need national binding bargaining to improve the whole of FE - otherwise FE colleges focused on Adult Ed will be increasingly left behind. Fair pay for all! #UCU #NewDealForFE
Morley College UCU Waterloo campus this week!
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
@ucu.org.uk
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
@ucu.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Solidarity to all those striking at Morley! We need national binding bargaining to improve the whole of FE - otherwise FE colleges focused on Adult Ed will be increasingly left behind. Fair pay for all! #UCU #NewDealForFE
Come rain or shine, we'll be on the picket line! Another solid day - members are determined to fight for better. #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Come rain or shine, we'll be on the picket line! Another solid day - members are determined to fight for better. #UCU #NewDealForFE
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Useful thread about what branches can do to offer @sheffielducu.bsky.social Sheffield UCU some practical solidarity in the coming days...
1️⃣ Branch committees may be limited by what they can pledge, but if this action becomes deadlocked in the New Year, branches should call emergency general meetings, invite speakers from Sheffield UCU and consider what solidarity and support they can offer.
Branch donations must continue.
6/7
Branch donations must continue.
6/7
January 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Useful thread about what branches can do to offer @sheffielducu.bsky.social Sheffield UCU some practical solidarity in the coming days...
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We love to see it! Solidarity to all our colleagues striking today ✊
January 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM
We love to see it! Solidarity to all our colleagues striking today ✊
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This morning at Working Men’s College, FE staff are standing together.
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
January 14, 2026 at 10:07 AM
This morning at Working Men’s College, FE staff are standing together.
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
Excellent strike today at CCC - our members demand fair pay, manageable workloads and national binding bargaining. #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Excellent strike today at CCC - our members demand fair pay, manageable workloads and national binding bargaining. #UCU #NewDealForFE
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Police inaction on sexual violence against women & girls laid bare again.
A culture of impunity for misogyny.
Almost 1 in 3 women experience rape or domestic violence.
Over 90% of perpetrators are known to victims & 1 in 2 rapists are partners or ex-partners. #r4today
A culture of impunity for misogyny.
Almost 1 in 3 women experience rape or domestic violence.
Over 90% of perpetrators are known to victims & 1 in 2 rapists are partners or ex-partners. #r4today
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Police inaction on sexual violence against women & girls laid bare again.
A culture of impunity for misogyny.
Almost 1 in 3 women experience rape or domestic violence.
Over 90% of perpetrators are known to victims & 1 in 2 rapists are partners or ex-partners. #r4today
A culture of impunity for misogyny.
Almost 1 in 3 women experience rape or domestic violence.
Over 90% of perpetrators are known to victims & 1 in 2 rapists are partners or ex-partners. #r4today